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The Articulate Hour makes sense of big ideas. Through conversations with artists, scholars, and other great creative thinkers, we explore our complex world through a lens of arts, culture, and science.
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About the Show
The Articulate Hour brings together artists, scholars, and other great creative thinkers to explore the big ideas that shape us. Each episode examines a new topic through a lens of arts, culture, and science, showing not only the different perspectives that each angle provides, but also the overlap where our lives actually take place.
Join Emmy Award-winning host Jim Cotter as he talks with poets, musicians, neuroscientists, dancers, historians, playwrights, and others about how we live our lives and navigate our complex world. Through these conversations, unexpected insights emerge about our common humanity, from evolutionary adaptations in our brains, to the way we make music, to how we think about our past. These inclusive discussions surprise and delight as they reveal the broad ties that unite us in an often-fractious world.
More About the Episodes
Episode 1 | Partial Recall
Memory is the amazing ability of our brains to store and access skills, information, and emotions. Artists and scholars discuss the reliability of our recall and the surprising ways our memories fuel creativity.
Episode 2 | Together/Alone
As modern humans, we crave both connection to others and our own solitude. Artists, scholars, and other great creative thinkers explore these contrasting impulses.
Episode 3 | Marking Time
Time rules our lives. Artists and experts show that it may be more flexible than we think.
